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Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Little by little, we’ve handed our choices to machine intelligences: social media feeds, chatbots, dating apps – each quietly shaping our thoughts and decisions. Author and technologist Tobias Rose-Stockwell examines how these tools are rewiring what it means to be human: what we gain, what we lose, and what we should fight to hold on to.
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Episodes
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellHow to Stop Doomscrolling w/ Catherine Price
How much attention should we pay to the bad things that are happening around the world? There’s a strange balance of obligation we have to society: many of the…
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellWhy Would AI Want to Kill Us? With Nate Soares
It has been a huge week for AI safety. For those of us deeply concerned about this historically niche cause, it has felt a bit like one’s cult emo band has…
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellSteven Pinker on Revolutions, Rogue AI, and the Struggle for Reality
Dr. Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist at Harvard, a 2x Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of notable works like The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, The…
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellEpisode 5: What happens when all the good people leave social media?
What happens when the good people leave social media? Chloé Valdary walked away from 110,000 followers on social media. Not a quiet, lurking exit — but a hard…
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellEpisode 4: Your kid will probably date an AI, and other terrifying thoughts – A conversation with the founder of Hinge
Will people stop dating humans? Over a decade ago, the movie Her portrayed a world where by where large numbers of people opted out of dating, and instead…
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellEpisode 3: Tristan Harris on how to safely build artificial minds
Today I’m releasing a conversation with Tristan Harris. Tristan is the founder of the Center for Humane Technology and one of the leading voices warning about…
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellEpisode 2: Tim Urban of Wait But Why on Algorithmic Viruses, Cultural Antibodies, and the Art of Audience Building
Something is wrong with society—we feel it before we name it. Is it the algorithms? The platforms? The culture we create in response to them? In this episode…
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellEpisode 1: Is AI Making Us Stupid? A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
Today I’m launching Into The Machine. My first episode is a conversation with my colleague, social psychologist and #1 NYT bestselling author Jonathan Haidt…
Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-StockwellI'm launching a new show: Into The Machine
We are living in a strange moment. AI is everything, everywhere, all at once. Democracy is very much on the ropes. We are all confused about what comes next…